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How do I restore Windows 2008R2 AD Snapshots on a new server?

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http://serverfault.com – We've been using Win2008R2's AD Snapshot feature to perform a nightly backup of our AD domain. I'm trying to figure out the steps that I need to run through to use one of these nightly backups to restore our AD domain on a 2nd server. These are the commands we used to backup the AD DOM: 1. create a new snapshot echo **** create a new snapshot **** >> %LOG% 2>>&1 ntdsutil snapshot "activate instance ntds" create quit quit >> %LOG% 2>>&1 2. mount the snapshot echo **** mount the new snapshot **** >> %LOG% 2>>&1 ntdsutil snapshot "list all" "m (HowTos)

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Submitted by taskli on 01/06/2013

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